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Joanne Whalley


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  • Willow
  • Willow review by Simes69 from Sevenoaks
    Rated - 3.0 stars Don't confuse this with Legend 4 September 2004
    ...lmer plays a bragging swordsman (evidently based on Han Solo in Star Wars), and Joanne Whalley plays the eveil Queens martial daughter. The kids will probably like this film...   Read customer review
  • Before You Go
  • Before You Go review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 1.0 stars Atrocious! 2 May 2004
    ... One star for Patricia Hodge playing against type to great effect, and possibly Joanne Whalley who somehow manages to be believable against all the odds (their scenes are the...   Read customer review
  • 44 Inch Chest
  • 44 Inch Chest review by citizenk from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Right tasty geezers 18 February 2010
    ... first twenty minutes,which is a real shame.Tom Wilkinson,John Hurt,Ian McShane,Joanne Whalley,and Ray Winstone are all better than this,the script is at turns,risible,sixth ...   Read customer review

Joanne Whalley - filmography


  • Twixt (2011)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Bruce Dern,  Elle Fanning
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 22 members
    Due for release on 30th September 2013
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  • The Borgias - S01 E09 - Nessuno (2011)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Joanne Whalley,  Francois Arnaud
    Director: Jeremy Podeswa
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Abandoned by even his cardinals, Alexander meets King Charles with humility and saves his throne. Della Rovere despairs as Charles abandons him. Lucrezia safely gives birth to a son in a convent as the Borgias secure an annulment of her marriage and plot revenge on their enemies.
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
  • 44 Inch Chest on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  John Hurt,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British hardman Ray Winstone (THE DEPARTED, SCUM) reunites with SEXY BEAST screenwriters Louise Mellis and David Scinto for this intriguing gangland thriller in which a scorned husband enlists his friends in a plan to kidnap the lover of his adulteress wife.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 14,899 members
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  • The Good Father (2010)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Anthony Hopkins and Jim Broadbent play two men, recently estranged from their wives and children, and trying to come to terms with their sense of frustration and despair. Directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings And A Funeral), this moving drama is packed with a rich array of stars including; Joanna ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 210 members
    Not available for rental
  • 44 Inch Chest - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Joanne Whalley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    British gangster drama penned by the writers of 'Sexy Beast', featuring an ensemble cast that includes Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Joanne Whalley and Tom Wilkinson. Ray Winstone stars as Colin Diamond, a London gangster who enlists the help of his friends to kidnap his wife's young French ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 5,447 members
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  • Diverted on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  David Suchet,  Colin Buchanan
    Director: Alex Chapple
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Made-for-TV fictional drama based on the real events of September 11th 2001. The story looks at the impact the terrorist attacks had on Gander, Newfoundland, after 39 US-bound flights were forced to land there when the Federal Aviation Authority shut down the skies, and how the day's events ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 372 members
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  • Flood - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  David Suchet,  Jessalyn Gilsig
    Director: Tony Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Where's Gene Kelly when you need him? Robert Carlyle stars in this doomsday tale, where the meeting of a powerful storm and dangerously high seas results in a tidal surge of biblical proportions sweeping down the east coast of England en route for London. With the Thames Barrier breached and panic ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 588 members
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  • Played on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Imran Ahktar,  George Berg,  Patrick Bergin
    Director: Sean Stanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After taking the fall for a heist gone wrong, thief-for-hire Ray Burns is back on the streets. Looking to settle the score, he must get back in the game one last time to take down his enemies. In this gritty look at London's criminal underground, Ray learns the hard way not to get "Played".
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 193 members
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  • The Virgin Queen (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  Tom Hardy,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Coky Giedroyc
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    From teenage princess to accomplished queen, forever torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of Elizabeth I is exposed in lavish and spectacular style in The Virgin Queen. Anne-Marie Duff stars as the enigmatic 'Virgin Queen' in this spellbinding drama that portrays the full sweep of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,365 members
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  • 40 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Vincent Regan,  Hugo Speer
    Director: David Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Provocative Channel 4 drama about former school friends dealing with the impact of turning forty. Seven former school friends find their lives put through the emotional wringer, as they evaluate their lives so far, and try to come to terms with the hand life has dealt them.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 92 members
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  • Before You Go on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Tom Wilkinson,  Patricia Hodge
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After the death of their mother, three sisters return to the small English coastal town where they had lived as girls, each weighed down with their own troubles. Teresa (Julie Walters), the eldest, is unsure about the future of the business she runs with her husband; middle-sister Mary (Joanne ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 795 members
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  • The Guilty on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Bill Pullman,  Angela Featherstone
    Director: Anthony Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crime thriller starring Bill Pullman as hot shot lawyer Callum Crane. Crane, the company golden boy, thinks he's untouchable. So when he brutally rapes new secretary Sophie (Gabrielle Anwar) in an alcohol-fuelled rage, he believes he can just fire the girl and forget about it. But Sophie won't stay ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 258 members
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  • A Good Man in Africa (1994)
    Starring: Colin Friels,  Joanne Whalley,  Sean Connery
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 28% from 10 members
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  • Scarlett (1994)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Timothy Dalton,  Barbara Barrie
    Director: John Erman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND in which Scarlett (played by the lovely Joanne Whalley of SCANDAL and WILLOW) refuses to accept Rhett's rejection and travels to Charleston to win him back. Unable to change his mind, she travels to Ireland, stirring up London society, and vowing never to reveal to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 40 members
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  • Storyville (1992)
    Starring: James Spader,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Mark Frost
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 20 members
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  • Shattered (1991)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Bob Hoskins,  Greta Scacchi
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 53 members
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  • The Big Man on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Joanne Whalley,  Ian Bannen
    Director: David Leland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Liam Neeson plays an unemployed Scottish miner who trains for a one-off bare-knuckle fist fight to bring in some money for his family, despite the disapproval of his wife (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer). As the fight date approaches 'The Big Man' discovers that the fight is corrupt but the money keeps him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 491 members
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  • Navy Seals on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Rick Rossovich,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dale Hawkins (Charlie Sheen) is a member of the SEALs - the US Navy equivalent of the SAS. His team are ordered to rescue civilian hostages stuck in the Middle East. They succeed but discover huge amounts of stolen hand-launched missiles in the process and have to go into Syria to destroy the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,671 member
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  • Kill Me Again on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Joanne Whalley,  Michael Madsen
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After they steal a large sum of money from the Mob, Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) betrays her psychotic partner Vince (Michael Madsen) and tries to make a clean getaway. Faking her own death with the help of private investigator Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer), Fay seems to have made the perfect ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 382 members
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  • Scandal on DVD (1989)
    Starring: John Hurt,  Joanne Whalley,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 937 members
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  • Willow (1988)
    Starring: Warwick Davis,  Val Kilmer,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a baby with a special birthmark is born in the fortress of evil Queen Baumorda (Jean Marsh), it falls to unlikely hero Willow Ulfgood (Warwick Davis) to save the child from certain death and deliver her to good witch Raziel (Patricia Hayes). En route he falls in with roguish Madmartigan (Val ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 15,672 members
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  • Willow - Blu-ray (1988)
    Starring: Warwick Davis,  Val Kilmer,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a baby with a special birthmark is born in the fortress of evil Queen Baumorda (Jean Marsh), it falls to unlikely hero Willow Ulfgood (Warwick Davis) to save the child from certain death and deliver her to good witch Raziel (Patricia Hayes). En route he falls in with roguish Madmartigan (Val ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 57 members
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  • No Surrender on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Michael Angelis,  Tom Georgeson,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Peter Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alan Bleasdale pens this dark comedy set in Liverpool. As a parting shot, a retiring Liverpool nightclub manager plays a cruel prank on his successor by booking two groups of pensioners - one Catholic and one Protestant - into the same bar room on the same night. When the new manager, Mike (Michael ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 75 members
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  • A Christmas Carol - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Lucy Gutteridge,  Michael Carter,  Mark Strickson
    Director: Clive Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    George C. Scott plays the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this version of the Dickens Christmas classic. Scrooge is a misanthrope unimpressed by the fuss everyone makes during the festive season. That is, until his sleep is disturbed one Christmas Eve by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 27 members
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  • A Christmas Carol on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Lucy Gutteridge,  Joanne Whalley,  Michael Carter
    Director: Clive Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    George C. Scott plays the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this version of the Dickens Christmas classic. Scrooge is a misanthrope unimpressed by the fuss everyone makes during the festive season. That is, until his sleep is disturbed one Christmas Eve by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,161 member
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  • A Kind Of Loving - The Complete Series (1982)
    Starring: Robert Keegan,  Joanne Whalley,  Clive Wood
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All ten episodes of the classic 'kitchen-sink' drama about love and relationships in an industrial Lancashire town. Draftsman Vic Brown (Clive Wood) sleeps with Ingrid (Joanne Whalley), a young typist who works at the same factory as him, but soon loses interest in her. When she discovers that she ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 10 members
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Joanne Whalley facts

5 most recent films

The Borgias - Series 2 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Borgias - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The Borgias - S01 E01 - The Poisoned Chalice - 3 stars
The Borgias - S01 E04 - Lucrezia's Wedding - 3 stars
Twixt - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Borgias - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The Borgias - Series 2 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Willow - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Virgin Queen - 3.5 stars
Shattered - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Good Man in Africa - 1.5 stars
To Kill a Priest - 2.0 stars
Storyville - 2.5 stars
Twixt - 2.5 stars
A Kind Of Loving - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeremy Irons - 11 times - show films
Lotte Verbeek - 11 times - show films
Holliday Grainger - 11 times - show films
David Oakes - 11 times - show films
Colm Feore - 11 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Neil Jordan - 12 times - show films
Kari Skogland - 10 times - show films
Jon Amiel - 10 times - show films
Malcolm Venville - 3 times - show films
Coky Giedroyc - 3 times - show films